I’m lucky/stupid enough to have reasonably powerful hardware for my home lab. Whilst I am a great advocate of building as much on physical equipment as possible, sometimes hardware costs are prohibitive or overkill to experiment with some new technologies. A new project at work required some work on Cross-vCenter NSX. Since I only had … Read more
Since I have a 10 Gbit switch, I thought I would test to see what sort of network throughput I can get between VMs in two scenarios – one using standard networking and one when connected using NSX logical switches. I have previously done this and noticed that the throughput when using the VTEP vmk’s … Read more
In my opinion, if you’re wanting to learn or sit exams, nothing beats practising on physical equipment. Online material is great, but you really do need to get proper hands on to fully understand all of the technology areas you’re interested in studying and certifying for. My lab has grown somewhat in the past few … Read more
Now that the NSX manager appliance is installed and set up with vCenter, it’s time to deploy the control cluster and prepare the hosts. But before we do this, we need to define IP Pools for the Controller cluster and hosts to use. Head over to Groups and Tags from within the Networking and Security … Read more
The blog is a natural progression from setting up my 2 node vSAN homelab, although I have now added a third host and done away with the witness appliance (technically my third host is now the witness, but I gain another compute node). The end result of this blog is for a VM to sit … Read more